It’s finally spooky season and one of the best ways to feel the spooky vibes is through some music the best scary soundtrack comes from one of the most popular scary movies. The soundtrack “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, was released in 1984. The movie was an overall success grossing almost $500 million worldwide, such a success that 6 more movies were made
The soundtrack to the movie is about 47 minutes long and includes 34 songs. As for its genre, it would be placed in the witch house category which is a microgenre of electronic music characterized by high pitched keyboard effects and drums, is aesthetically occult, and has gothic inspired themes. The album starts with ‘prologue’ (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and ends with ‘Morning After’, about half of the songs are by Charles Bernstein and the other half are by Robert Englund.
A couple of years after the horror music, Charles took a break and returned in 2012 by creating the ‘charlotte-ts’ soundtrack which also happens to be his last piece
immediately when I first heard the soundtrack it transported me back to a couple of years ago when I first watched the film. The nostalgic sounds emerged right from the first track and didn’t stop until the end. Even though there were no lyrics to the songs I could almost feel the intensity of the scene. some of the instruments Charles Bernstein used were bass, synths, guitar, and violin.
I would rate the songs as well as the soundtrack an overall 6/10. It wasn’t my favorite but I do believe that if some songs had lyrics they would have been good, A good example of this would be track 7 ‘Run Nancy’ it would be so much better with lyrics. Hearing these sounds made me feel the Halloween spirit.
